This is the short version of a kick-off presentation Jim Creighton made at the New Ways of Working Winter, 2007 Symposium on the role of place in a distributed world. He follows the history of the office from its start in the 1850s to modern times and beyond.

Even as telecommuting becomes much more common, it's still uncharted territory for most companies. Here's how to manage employees you rarely see.

One of the toughest parts of a manager's job is the hardest to measure, because it involves the unquantifiable human connection between supervisors and the supervised.

Research on organizational creativity has increased rapidly in the last decade. Not only is creativity of interest to scientific researchers, it has become a compelling topic in the popular media, with recent articles in Psychology Today (Gryskiewicz 2000), Fast Company (Dahl 2000), and in business-oriented publications such as the Harvard Business Review (Hargadon and Sutton 2000). Why this intense interest, and why now?

The second NewWOW symposium explored the role of place in a distributed world. Twenty five thought leaders from a variety of disciplines discussed and argued about whether place still
mattered.

Our latest library entry features an article written by Joe Aki Ouye, Ph.D. of New Ways of Working and Hal Levin from the Building Ecology Research Group. Here is their introduction: